I Edward Tolley of Netherbury in the County of Dorset YeomanSocial class between labourers and the nobility
Probably owning and working their own landSocial class between labourers and the nobility
Probably owning and working their own land now aged seventy two years do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows namely

1. That I knew and was well acquainted with Thomas Webb of Netherbury aforesaid YeomanSocial class between labourers and the nobility
   Probably owning and working their own landSocial class between labourers and the nobility
   Probably owning and working their own land and Jenny his Wife formerly Jenny Stoodley Spinster

2. That the said Thomas Webb and Jenny his Wife had issue two Sons and one Daughter namely John, Jane and Thomas and no more and are both long since dead

3. That the said John Webb died at Netherbury aforesaid on or about the eighteenth day of February One Thousand eight hundred and sixty a Bachelor

4. That the said Jane Webb married on or about the thirtieth day of October One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen John Stoodley late of Chard in the County of Somerset Soap Boiler by whom she had issue a Son named John Stoodley and that she died at Chard aforesaid in or about the year One thousand eight hundred and fifty two and also that the said John Stoodley the elder died at Chard aforesaid in the month of July last

5. That the said Thomas Webb (the Son) married on or about the twenty fourth day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty five my cousin Elizabeth Tolley who died in the month of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty three at Netherbury aforesaid

6. That the said last mentioned Thomas Webb died at Netherbury aforesaid on or about the fourteenth day of June last having had one Child only namely Thomas Webb who died at Chard aforesaid on or about the thirteenth November One thousand eight hundred and sixty one and was buried at Netherbury

7. That the persons named in the Certificates of marriage now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter A. and B. are respectively the said Thomas Webb (the Father) and Jenny Stoodley and the said Thomas Webb (the Son) and Elizabeth Tolley and that I believe and am fully convinced that the persons in the Certificate of Marriage now produced and shown to me and marked with the letter C. named Joseph Stoodley and Jane Webb are the said John Stoodley and Jane Webb

8. That the persons named in the Certificates of Baptism now produced and shown to me and marked with the letters D. E. F. & G. are respectively the said John Webb the said Jane Webb (since Jane Stoodley) the said John Stoodley her Son and the said Thomas Webb (the Grandson)

9. That he persons named in the Certificates of burial now produced and shown to me and marked with the letters H. J. K. and L. M. N. and O. are respectively the same persons as the said Thomas Webb (the Father) the said John Webb the said Thomas Webb (the Son) the said Elizabeth Webb (formerly Elizabeth Tolley) the said Thomas Webb (the Grandson) the said Jane Stoodley and the said John Stoodley (her husband)

And I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled “An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled “An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra judicial Oaths and Affidavits” and to make other Provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths”

Edward Tolley

Declared at Beaminster in the County of Dorset this 27th day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty six

Before one Peter Cox

A commissioner to administer
Oaths in Chancery in England